1 6 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



ander. It provides 3500 square feet of floor space for exhibition, and 

 approximately 5000 for offices, workrooms, etc. This building is 

 considered a temporary structure. 



ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to the president of 

 the university and to Miss Alexander. 



SCOPE. The purposes of the museum are exploration, research, 

 and college teaching. 



PUBLICATIONS. Papers from the museum are published in the 

 University of California Publications in Zoology. 



CLAREMONT: 



POMONA COLLEGE. Museum. 



The museum was founded by A. J. Cook, and is connected with 

 the department of biology. It consists chiefly of teaching collections, 

 in charge of C. F. Baker, curator and professor of zoology. It occupies 

 a portion of the second floor of the Pearsons Hall of Science, erected 

 in 1898. The collections comprise a herbarium of 2oo,ooo phanero- 

 gams and io,ooo cryptogams, including co-types, para-types, or 

 topo-types of nearly all the numerous new species collected by the 

 curator in the United States, Nicaragua, Colombia, Cuba, and Brazil; 

 synoptic collections in geology and paleontology to illustrate the lectures 

 given in courses on these subjects; and extensive collections in zoology, 

 including 5ooo shells, 250,000 insects (numerous types), io,ooo 

 other invertebrates, and 5000 vertebrates. There is a department 

 library of over 5000 titles in direct connection with the museum. The 

 collections are maintained from the funds of the department, amount- 

 ing to $2000 or more per annum, and are used chiefly for teaching pur- 

 poses. They are augmented by the results of exploration and research 

 by members of the department. Publications based upon museum 

 material are a portion of the " Invertebrata Pacifica" and the 

 "Pomona Journal of Entomology Quarterly," 5 numbers having been 

 published. 



LOS ANGELES: 



BOARD OF EDUCATION. Science and Art Museum. (High 

 School.) 



STAFF. J. Z. Gilbert in charge. 

 ANTHROPOLOGY. 100 Indian specimens. 

 ART. 50 drawings and 100 working charts of drawings. 

 GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, 200, in storage, 500; Rocks, 

 200; non-mettalic ores, 100. 



